Risk & ERM

A familiar question for actuaries, student or qualified, is: ‘what does an actuary do?’. Friends, work colleagues, US immigration officers and non-executive directors alike have all asked me this at some point. We tend to develop our own responses – ‘insurance maths’, ‘financial projections’ and so on – to move the conversation along, but they probably aren’t great.

Tim Harford speaks to Ruolin Wang about why it’s so important to slow down and question things from emotive headlines to the numbers and algorithms we use in our work

Michael Sher discusses how pension fund trustees could demonstrate to stakeholders that they are acting on climate risk

Massimo Cavadini, Davide Burlon and Gili Smadja discuss how automated machine learning is changing the role of the pricing actuary

Prachi Patkee and Adam Strange discuss what the rising threat of climate-driven communicable disease means for insurers

Life and health insurers need to consider how cyber risk could potentially impact them, say Visesh Gosrani, Mikhail Norshteyn and Karl Oliver

Alex Martin and Ryan Allison discuss the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference – and why biodiversity is an aspect of the sustainability crisis that actuaries must not ignore

Michael Sher sets out the option savailable to investors who are looking to improve their portfolios’ climate credentials

Lawrence Habahbeh considers what a geopolitical risk framework for the 21st century would look like

As quantifying climate risk exposure becomes increasingly important, Dan Gill, Rajinder Poonian and Alex Harding investigate the effect of rising temperatures on future mortality